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 coo COOKE, J. A. New Orders of tlie High Court of Chancery, with Notes. Also, the late Statutes reguluting the Proceedings of the same Court, and the Service of Process Abroad ; and an Appendix, containing the Decisions upon Sir E. Sugden's Acts, with the subsequent Acts enlarging the Powers thereof; with a Supplement, containing the Orders and Statutes to October 27th, 1842. 2d ed. 12mo. London. 1842. This is said to be a meagre and indifferent publication. 2 Jurist, 971. COOKE, WM. Bankrupt Laws ; containing Extracts of the Sta- tutes now in force, and the Cases and determinations of Courts of Law and Equity, &,c. ; together with a collection of the most useful and approved Precedents in matters of Bankruptcy. 8th ed. with Additions. By G. Roots. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1823. The most complete of the early works upon the Bankrupt Laws, but is now nearly superseded by later publications. Bridg. Bib. Leg. 80. COOKSEY, R. An Essay on the Life and Character of Lord Somers, and of Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. 4to. Worcester. 1791. COOPER, C. P. Lettres sur la cour de la Chancellerie d'Angle- terre et sur quelques points de la Jurisprudence Anglaise. 8vo. London. 1828. Enrichies de Notes et Appendices, par M. C. P. Cooper. Et publiees avec une Litroduction, par M. P. Royer- CoUard. 12mo. Paris. 1830. The editor of the Paris edition ascribes this work to a French gentle- man residing in England. "Les lettres que je donne au public sont I'ouvrage d'un jeune Fran^ais que, oblige par des affairs d'interet a passer qnelque temps en Angleterre, crut devoir mettre ce sejour a profit, et I'employer a des observations utiles." M. Royer-Collard is mistaken in his supposition, for the letters as well as the notes were doubtless writ- ten by C. P. Cooper. He has been led into this error from the fact that the first edition of the work was published anonymously, and purports to have been written by a foreigner, from which the Continental editions have been printed. A new edition was published at London in 1828, from which it appears that the letters, as well as the notes, were written by C. P. Cooper. — Avocat Anglois. This able work contains sketches of the proposed Chancery reforms that were contemplated in England at the time of its publication, "as well as numerous curious details respecting the English judges and bar, foreign codes," &c. The Paris edition contains an ably written introduction of about one hundred pages, upon the French judicial system. Pref. 5 ; Martin's Cat. of Books, privately printed, 252. 226